Apparatus for printing warps.



No. 334,896. PATENTED 001303 1906.

e. MORTON.

APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WARPS.

AIfPLIOATION FILED APB.13,1905.

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' G. MORTON.

APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WARPS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.13,1905.'

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GAVIN MORTON OF GARLISLE, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR PRINTING- WARPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1 906.

Application filed April is. 1905. Serial No. 255,428.

To all whom it may concern:

ject of the King of the U 'ted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland,- England, have i lvented certain new and useful A paratus for Printing Warps, of which the ibllowing is a specificatron.

This invention relates to the printing of warp-yarns for the production of figured woven fabricsesuch, for example, as Lass wade or ta estny carpets; and it has for its object to e ect such (printing in a novel man' ner and by improve and comparatively inexpensive means, -whereby the requisite amount of yarn for a single carpet or piece offabric of any desired'figured pattern or design may be printed and the pattern or design thereafter changed with little trouble and expense, While the warp is printed exactly as it is to be woven, the design not being disturbed in' lacing the warps in the weaving-looma vantages not attainable'by the usual drum systemof printing. V

According to my invention the series of warps which are to be usedon the warpbeam in weaving the figured fabric are caused to travel intermittently over a series of colorpads, into contact with which they are depressed in order to effect the printing by types or blocks selected or brought into operative position by means of jacquard or other pattern mechanism, so t at at each action a short portion of the length of each warp or so much as suffices for a bight-or tuft of the fabric is printed or dyed with one color,while the adjoiningwa is printed with a different color, (or'with the same color,) and at the next action the adjoining length of each war is printed withthe same or a different co or in accordance with the design as a cut on the jacquard-cards, and thus by merely changing the cards of the jacquard a fresh design may be printed.

In .the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic side elevation of the apparatus employed.- Fig. 2 is an elevation of the drain for supplying color to the printingpads, and Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged .crosssections of the printing t es and relative parts of the apparatus. 5 shows diagrammatically means for intermittently feeding the. warp-threads.

The apparatus used in carrying out the invention maybe arranged in various ways; butaccording to one convenient arrangement, which is illustrated diagrammatically at Fig. 1, the yarns Y are led from an inter mittent feed-beam B through a reed B, over a a series of suitably-spaced color pads or boxes-C, through a guide-reed B andover a drying-drum D to the yarn-beam E, from which the fabric is subsequently woven.

The warp-threads are intermittently-fed from, the beam B, 'as shown at Fig. 5, by means of a disk I, secured to the main driving-shaft L, the said disk having a roller 1', p

which engages withthe teeth of an intermittentl -rotated wheel M, mounted on a shaft m, w 'ch also carries a pinion-wheel m gearing with a s ur-wheel m driving the intermittent fee -beam B. From the beam B the drying-cylinder is driven by sprocketchain N.

The color-pads C are supplied with fluid dye or color each by a se arate drain F, as

indicated at Fig. 2, into w ich' the dye is led from a feed-tanker bottle G, preferably fluidtight and having its outlet dipping into the drain in such Wise that as the fluid-level in the draindescends below the outlet of the bottle air is admitted to permit of a small discharge of the fluid, so'that a practically uniform level is maintained in the drain. Other means ma however, be provided for supplying the co or-pads each with its requlsite supply of color.

'Over. the color-pads are fitted rows .of types or blocks H, as shown by the-enlarged cross-sections, Figs. 3 and 4, one row being fitted over each pad C and consisting of as many types as there are yarn-threads, each type being directly over a strand of yarn Y. The types H of each row are centered on a cross bar or rod I, and each type has a projecting arm h, to which is attached one of the harness-threads J of the jacquard, which when pulled on tilts the type to WhlCh 1t 1s, attached so as to throw it up out of the operative position, asindicated at the righthand end of Fig. 3.

The cross-bars I, onwhich the rows of types are centered, are carried by a frame I to which a vertical reciprocating movement is imparted by the toggles K or by other means, so as to bring down these types which are not thrown-out of operative pos1- tion into contact with the yarns Y below.

and so as to depress them into contact with the color-pads C below in the intervals between the intermittent feeding movements of the yarn. I

The types to be brought into action at each depression of the frame are selected by the jacquard, and the are suitably arranged in relation to the co or-pads below, so that by their 0 eration each strand of yarn is printed throug out its length with a succession of sharply-defined colorings in accordance with the cutting of the jacquard-cards and the design or pattern of the fabric to be woven with the printed yarns. The types instead of being swung 0n centers may be reciprocated or otherwise 0 erated from the jacquard or pattern mecl ianism.

The color-pads in the present instance, of which there may be a single row or a number of rows, are formed by endless bands C,

passing round suitably-driven rollers C in the drains F and over soft pads C, secured on the u per ends of rails 0 so that a fresh supply of dye or'color is or may be provided for each descent of the types into contact with t e ads.

aving now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

Apparatus for rinting warps for use in the manufacture of gured woven fabrics comprising in combination, means for intermittently feeding a plurality of warps, a series of color-pads located under each warp, a correspondlng series of printing types or blocks located over each warp, attern mechanism connected to and arrange to select the printing types, and means operating to' bring the selected types into contact with the warps thereunder and to press them against the corresponding pads while leaving moperative the others of the printing-types, whereby successive lengths of'the individual warps are printed with varying colors in accordance with the design of the pattern mechanism, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GAVIN MORTON.

Witnesses:

WALLACE FAIRWEATHER, JNo. ARMSTRONG, Junr. 

